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Posted December 24, 2011
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DProject: ...
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Runehamster: Oh, WELL done. Elegant solution! It took me almost an hour for a RuneScape miniquest that was a version of this old riddle.

edit: And yikes, I've really overposted if he's going to random.org this. I withdraw myself from the running and apologize, didn't mean to fiddle with the percentages.
I'll manage.
Posted December 25, 2011
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DProject: Scenario three (The "White and Black" bag):
-If I picked a white marble, I know I'm holding the "White" bag. Since the labels are incorrect in each of the bags, then the "Black" bag must be the real "White and Black" bag. And the "White" bag must be the real "Black" bag.
-If I picked a black marble, my bag must be the "Black" bag. Again, each of the labels are incorrect; that means the bag that says "Black" is actually "White". The bag that says "White" is actually "White and Black".

So, if you're given a task such as this, you should pick a marble from the bag that says it sports both colors. Hope I didn't screw up anything in the final explanation :D
Second post in this thread, sorry about that.

And I'm sorry, but you are over-thinking the problem, remember this is an early elementary school problem (though I probably also worded it poorly). The conclusion is the correct one, you should pick the one from the bag that says that it contains black & white, though as all labels are incorrect, that means that the bag that says black don't contain black marbles, same is true for the white one (but for white), so by picking a marble from the black & white bag you can tell what it contains (i.e. black or white marbles, as it won't contain both)
Posted December 25, 2011
Bored. Entering contest. Still bored.
Posted December 25, 2011
I'm in thanks for the contest!
Posted December 25, 2011
Draw in 2 and a half hours.

And don't worry about double or even triple post, I'll write down your nicknames in order of your first post and random.org that.
Post edited December 25, 2011 by Profanity
Posted December 25, 2011
I would ike to join. Maybe lady luck will give me steam winning this time/
Posted December 25, 2011
Let's give it a try.
Posted December 25, 2011
Oh fuckity fuck, forgot about the draw, I'm late one hour! Sorry for the delay.

And the winner is: Danteveli.

Congratulations and I'll be sending you a PM in a second.
Posted December 25, 2011
Thanks for the game Profanity and good luck next time to other contestants.
Post edited December 25, 2011 by danteveli
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